ABUJA — The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, apologised to Nigerians for the hardship experienced in purchasing petrol, while it also stated that it had entered into a partnership with security agencies in the country to assist in the monitoring of fuel supply across the country.

He said: “We must all make sure that petroleum products get across to Nigerians at the regulated price especially as the yuletide season approaches. We have enough products and we want to plead with the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTDs) not to be involved in the diversion of petroleum products in order to avoid causing untold hardship to motorists.”

Role of the security agencies

Providing insight on the role of the security agencies in curbing product diversion, Managing Director of the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, Mrs. Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, said the DSS and EFCC have been mobilized to bring to book any marketer involved in sabotaging the efforts of the Federal Government in making petroleum products available to motorists across the country.

She said: “We have invited the EFCC and DSS to join us in this campaign of monitoring the movement of petroleum products and they have our mandate to sanction any errant marketer. Enough is enough.”

She urged Nigerians and other motorists to desist from panic buying assuring that there are sufficient petroleum products to
satisfy local consumption.

Meanwhile, giving breakdown of fuel supplied to petrol stations, the NNPC stated that Suleja, Kaduna, Kano, Minna, Gusau, Mosimi and Satelite depots dispatched 7.398 million litres, 0.937 million litres, 4.4 million litres, 0.444 million litres, 0.939 million litres, 4.351 million litres and 1.937 million litres respectively.

In addition Ore, Ibadan, Gombe, Benin, Warri, Port Harcourt, Aba, Makurdi and Enugu dispatched 0.338 million litres, 0.412 million litres, 3.024 million litres, 0.318 million litres, 0.318 million litres, 3.097 million litres, 0.298 million litres, 0.891 million litres and 1.737 million litres respectively to petrol stations across the country.

QuotaSystem:
Responsible governance.

chymystique:
We dont want apology, We want Action!... This APC led govt is the worst ever!

MouthAction Government

sameer1212:
Lol...worst ever? bae talk true na Well, you are always Anti-APC so ain't surprise at all.

chymystique:


Lol. Its not a matter of anti- APC... the way APC promised Nigerians heaven and earth, we expected @least something better not worse..

chymystique:


Lol. Its not a matter of anti- APC... the way APC promised Nigerians heaven and earth, we expected @least something better not worse..

benardtotti:
. Try and be realistic and stop being illogical, change is a process and APC never promised instant success ( when its not instant noodles), even jesus christ did not die until 33 yrs after coming to earth, dat means nothing in this world is immediate, not even salvation. God bless u my sister, In your lifetime u shall see a new nigeria.

QuotaSystem:
Responsible governance. This change reminds me of when every kind of Nigerian suffering was attributed to an invisible 'cabal' that we soon found out to be the PDP itself (Diezani and co. )

The situation is not pretty at the moment, but with a responsible government, we will soon meet the light at the end of this tunnel.

dejonathan:
No More Queing For Petrol In My Area,,so I Tink Petrol Will Soon Reach Everywhere

chymystique:



Am being realistic.. APC's change is just in name only.. Most of its members were the same people that put Nigeria in the level we are in now.. Am not expecting instant success but @ least they should start doing something no matter how small.. This govt is stagnant. They ve no idea on how to implement anything only to talk talk.. I pray Nigeria gets better

benardtotti:
. Try and be realistic and stop being illogical, change is a process and APC never promised instant success ( when its not instant noodles), even jesus christ did not die until 33 yrs after coming to earth, dat means nothing in this world is immediate, not even salvation. God bless u my sister, In your lifetime u shall see a new nigeria.

sameer1212:
Apology will be accepted when You provide Nigerians fuel.

dejonathan:
No More Queing For Petrol In My Area,,so I Tink Petrol Will Soon Reach Everywhere

QuotaSystem:
Responsible governance. This change reminds me of when every kind of Nigerian suffering was attributed to an invisible 'cabal' that we soon found out to be the PDP itself (Diezani and co. )

The situation is not pretty at the moment, but with a responsible government, we will soon meet the light at the end of this tunnel.

benardtotti:
. On the contrary , this government is positioning itself for serious change next year

Demdem:


Go out and buy. Fuel is available. Queues are dwindling down. Find something else to wail on, not fuel again.